New Year, New Fate
The year is now 2012.
12 years has passed and its time for the Dragon to rise again. This year, its the Water Dragon which means no red or yellow or any color that represents fire. Black, Green or Blue is the theme for this CNY season! Do you think its weird when a whole family dress in those colors going to a restaurant to have their reunion, or Chor Yat lunch?? Looks like a funeral ceremony just ended to me :S
That's me in black @ a restaurant! Owh, what an angle for my lil cousin sis.
I'm sure many people get to see these words "fook" that is written upsidedown around almost in every Chinese household.
The mini clipped-on "fook"s on my dining table
Then the next popular item for CNY are the mandarin oranges. Wow, even our Malay friends head to the supermarkets to buy boxes of "limau" home to savor.
Those in my house are a lil special, these are smaller mandarin oranges. There is a name for it, but i've forgotten. So here's a bowl of it. Oh, its seedless...yeah...
Every year, our parents will head to the bank to change for new notes so that they could give us ang pau, red packets with new notes in it. Usually it comes in RM1, 5, 10 and 50's. I rarely seen a stack of hundreds. But this year, something new has been introduced! A new gold coin that replaces the old 1 ringgit coin.
Our new 50 cents is now smaller, lighter and GOLD!
Last and the best is every New year, it is best accompanied with Fireworks! Of course they are also firecrackers too and these are real bombs! Bombs that lightened up the sky with colors and patterns that cherish all young and old hearts... More to come on the 8th Day of CNY at 12am when the Hokkiens celebrates!
Here is one to share with you...
12 years has passed and its time for the Dragon to rise again. This year, its the Water Dragon which means no red or yellow or any color that represents fire. Black, Green or Blue is the theme for this CNY season! Do you think its weird when a whole family dress in those colors going to a restaurant to have their reunion, or Chor Yat lunch?? Looks like a funeral ceremony just ended to me :S
That's me in black @ a restaurant! Owh, what an angle for my lil cousin sis.
I'm sure many people get to see these words "fook" that is written upsidedown around almost in every Chinese household.
The mini clipped-on "fook"s on my dining table
Then the next popular item for CNY are the mandarin oranges. Wow, even our Malay friends head to the supermarkets to buy boxes of "limau" home to savor.
Those in my house are a lil special, these are smaller mandarin oranges. There is a name for it, but i've forgotten. So here's a bowl of it. Oh, its seedless...yeah...
Every year, our parents will head to the bank to change for new notes so that they could give us ang pau, red packets with new notes in it. Usually it comes in RM1, 5, 10 and 50's. I rarely seen a stack of hundreds. But this year, something new has been introduced! A new gold coin that replaces the old 1 ringgit coin.
Our new 50 cents is now smaller, lighter and GOLD!
Last and the best is every New year, it is best accompanied with Fireworks! Of course they are also firecrackers too and these are real bombs! Bombs that lightened up the sky with colors and patterns that cherish all young and old hearts... More to come on the 8th Day of CNY at 12am when the Hokkiens celebrates!
Here is one to share with you...
posted by Terry Tham at
3:41 AM
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